Call for History buffs!
As a personal (but serious) project, I am ensembling a team for an archive of the 1900s. Specifically the early conflicts, such as WW1 and WW2.
I am looking for anyone invested in this time in Modern History. From enthusiasts to Graduates. If you have language, programming, archival or any other related skills, feel free to contact me at:
[email protected]
Introduce yourself (real or pseudonym identity), what you want to offer, or anything you deem relevant.
Ideally, we need:
- French Speaker
- German Speaker
- Dutch Speaker
- Italian Speaker
- IT
- Archivist
- Treasurer(eventually)
- WW1 Speciallist
- WW2 Speciallist
- Assistant
This doesnt mean that other people that dont fall into these categories are not welcome!
As this is a personal project, remuneration is not yet possible, so it's a volunteer-based Archive. If that is not something you can afford, I would appreciate it if you could pass the word to someone who you might think could be interested.
Thank you!
(If you dont want, or cant, send an email you are more than free to DM me).
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Another one, this is mostly just for it looking nice.
I give up on not making these posts long.
Though this is Michel and Gerry when they are at their largest control and strength of their power.
Some mild spoilers, for tma, and this fic.
So what better time to talk about power scaling.
This isn’t the most clear cut and dry. Power tends to be a a bit fluid and unpredictable
Now there is an entire field of study to what they are and what they do. Though to quote from the fic itself “…one of the most prominent academics in that field before she went off the deep end. A common trend for academics in that field. ….they either died, went missing, went crazy, or became librarians.”
In other words that’s what I would call an occupational hazard. Notably Gerry is somewhat exaggerating.
So before I get into power scales and such I should probably talk about what I have changed in regards to the powers.
First of there’s three of them! But they are also all the same thing. It has a lot to do with what humans call them more than the nature of the power itself.
The line between the knowing and the beholder is so thin it’s mistaken for the other all the time. I think it’s better to think of it as looking at the same thing from different angles.
A bit similar to how it works in TMA proper, the powers individually exist at the same time they do not and are a collective.
So there’s three kinds of powers. They are called pantheons
The dread pantheon, the knowledge pantheon and the adoration pantheon. More on that some other time.
Quick reference:
- Dread: most of the ones we are familiar with.
- Knowing: intellect, and instinct. Awareness of the world around you. It is definitely a power that leans more heavily on humans to feed but is still found in animals (too a greater extent than humans thought before!) this power was heavily favored during the enlightenment.
Includes: the knowing, the dreaming, strategy, the light, the speaker, the crafters,
- Admiration: love and feeling. Though often not just love, it is a lot of other emotions, even some of the ones we are familiar with from tma, the lonely, the web and to some minor extents the corruption, the desolation and even the spiral. Needless to say it’s complicated.
Includes: hope, agape (unconditional love) , stroge (friendship) , philia (familial) , Eros (passion), hatred and envy.
I’ll probably explain this in more detail at some other point.
In the meantime power scale.
For the majority of people this is irrelevant most of the time so they use a rather informal system of ranking. It’s the older one that has been around since slightly before the scientific revolution. (European centric) so was spread around the world by colonialism. Other places had used thier own system prior. Along with thier own names. This actually did change how the powers tended to manifest. For example the craft in Europe is not associated with shapeshifting, but in parts of Africa it is.
No, monsters and entities look and behave a bit differently depending on the circumstances and cultures that manifest them.
So the general system in order from most powerful and rarest to least powerful but most common.
Demi-god, avatar, the named, the aligned, the touched, normal people.
- Demi-gods: the physical embodiment of the power. There have not really been any known demigods since the renaissance. In fact to the point no one knows how a person becomes one or even if they where ever a real thing.
-avatars- these are well documented but rare, there’s different degrees of avatars but they are all deeply tied to their power. For example I state at the beginning of the fic that there’s five distortions in the world. There are normally twenty or less avatars of any power in the world.
- named, here’s where what most people in TMA proper fall into. This also includes things like werewolves or vampires or other such creatures that we have named.
-aligned, when it comes to people with power who know they have it and use it, they are in this group. Generally permanent but can fade or at least go dormant if not attended too.
-touched, often temporary not noticeable in every day life. Everyone has had a touch of something at some time. But can fade away in an hour to a few days or even stick around for a few years, but will fade as time goes on.
This is different for monsters.
Now this is the general layman term for these that have become popular over the centuries (in part thanks to colonialism) but there are other ones, some are religious classifications, but then there is the one that came around during ww1 and was standardized during ww2 (really it became a well known practice in the late 1930s but grew in the 1940)
This is the alphabetical numerical system that is designed to assess how dangerous a creature or thing is. It originated as a way for government to know what entities where attacking troops and civilians the most and what ones could be dealt with and then what ones could be dealt with first.
Messy as it is the ranking system goes something like this:
S - most powerful, it’s essentially the equivalent to an avatar. They don’t have a ranking for demigods equivalent. Mostly due to the before mentioned lack of any demigods for a long time.
A iii. Could destroy an entire city.
A ii. Causes areas and objects they interact with to be touched by a power.
A i. Intelligent and show planning, likely once human,
B ii your average giant beasts, things like sea monsters, giants and such creatures of the vast.
B i. Ranking for well known monsters often have their own groups that deal with them. Things like the vampires, and doppelgängers.
C ii. Lowest ranking given to creatures that where once humans. Because legally if it was human it has to be delt with in a different manner.
C i- your average monster that crawls out of the otherworld.
D -legal limit for ownership of a pet with power with out having a license for it. Also this is what Michel’s “cat” is.
E- what you would find on a normal ghost hunt. In theory dangerous but not life threatening unless something goes really wrong.
F -least powerful. It’s essentially the same as a creature being aligned.
Numerals are rarely added to the rankings and most monsters are simply referred to by the Letters.
This information is not super important for the fic as it’s only brought up a few times. As most of the characters use the less formal system.
Governments in this world tend to try and keep track of who has what powers and such, but that is a whole mess on its own, and it is not well kept track of. This of course depends on the country and stuff. With some barely keeping a regrasty while others are strict about it.
This is all very silly to some extent. But this is what I have written so I guess I will just go with it.
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